Why One's Practical Reasons Are Not Just One's Own Private Affair

[From 1st paragraph] Dr S. Cholar, who is a lecturer at the Lowerlands University – a publicly funded institution – decides to join the one-month strike, called by the union she is member of, against the decision of Mr T. Ory, the recently elected Prime Minister of the ambitious State of Little Island, to implement a widespread a programme of radical cuts meaning, among other things, that all the publicly funded higher education institutions in the country will be privatised.